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Wagner may return
By Emily Kaplan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Jesse Wagner, a captain on the
Penn State men’s volleyball team
last season, is not guaranteed a
roster spot this upcoming year,
coach Mark Pavlik confirmed
Ihesday.
Pavlik said the libero violated
team policy last spring which
resulted in the coach revojdng
Wagner’s captain status and
will now have to tryout for the
team this year.
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liana Bucholtz (junior-broadcast journalism and secondary education) decorates a sukkah outside the Pasquerllla Spiritual Center on
Tuesday. The sukkah, a hut, is a symbol of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which Penn State Hillel will celebrate to mark the festival of the har
vest and when Jews built temporary shelters in the desert after leaving Egypt. To read more about the holiday, see page 5.
Courtesy of Sestak campaign
Susan Clark-Sestak will be at Penn State to campaign for her husband.
Clark-Sestak set
to visit students
By Nathan Pipenberg
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Susan Clark-Sestak the wife
of U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa.
will visit Penn State tonight to
spark student involvement in pol
itics and discuss the importance
of the youth vote.
Clark-Sestak will speak at 7:15
p.m. on the third floor lounge of
the HUB-Robeson Center, Sestak
aide Jordan Mishkin said.
Sestak, who beat longtime U.S.
Senator Arlen Specter in the
Democratic primary in May, will
face former U.S. Rep. Pat
Toomey in November.
Clark-Sestak’s stop at Penn
State is one of several college vis-
The incident, which Pavlik
declined to elaborate on, occurred
around the time of the EIVA
Tournament in late April.
Wagner did not dress for that
tournament, or for the Nittany
Lions’ run to the NCAA title
game, but still traveled with the
team.
“I made a mistake and I have
learned from it,” Wagner said
Tuesday. “I am working hard to
put myself- in a position to con
tribute to this team in any capaci
ty."
its she will make during a two
day trip across the state in an
effort to reach out to youth. April
Mellody, a Sestak spokeswoman,
said the congressman has
focused on colleges because so
See CLARK-SESTAK, Page 2.
If you go
What Susan Clark-Sestak will
address students
When: 7:15 tonight
Where: Third floor lounge of
the HUB-Robeson Center
Details: The event is open to
all students
This fall, the State College
native has been participating in
regular offseason workouts with
the Lions, though his name has
been removed from the roster on
Penn State’s athletic website.
Pavlik must finalize his 2011
roster by Oct. 23.
“Right now, Jess has been
doing what Jess does well and
that’s working hard and bringing
See VOLLEYBALL. Page 2.
Coverage on women’s volleyball |
SPORTS, Page 9.
Hand dryers
to be installed
By Jessica Tully
FOR THE COLLEGIAN
Penn State Housing officials
will spend $lOO,OOO to install
hand dryers into all campus res
idence halls by the end of the
academic year.
“Students have been asking
for paper towels or hand dryers
to be installed into the residence
hall restrooms for many years,
but we’ve always been hesitant
in the past because of cost and previous years, but it was not
sanitary issues,” Penn State until last year’s outbreak of
Director of Housing Conal Carr HINI more commonly known
The project was consideTed in
Scientist: DNA matches Allen
By Zach Geiger
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
ALTOONA A Pennsylania
State Police forensic scientist told
the jury DNA evidence from two
used condoms found in Sean L.
Allen’s bedroom matched Allen’s
own DNA and the DNA of the 20-
year-old Penn State Altoona stu
dent he is charged with killing.
The prosecution team, Blair
County Deputy District Attorney
Wade Kagarise and District
Collegian file photo
Jesse Wagner dives for the ball.
No more wet hands
_ Dryers will be
Cost: $lOO,OOO ms \ a n edin
West, East,
North, Pollock
and South Halls
S bathrooms by
i JM* the end of the
I Si academic year.
jrcfi: Conal Carr. Director of Housina
Katie Moore/Collegian
as swine flu that housing
See DRYERS, Page 2.
Attorney Richard A. Consiglio
said Allen should be convicted oi
first-degree mur
der in connection
with the death of
Margo “Maggie”
Davis on March
3,2009
Her body was
found in the trunk
of her blue
Pontiac Grand Allen
Am about 100
yards from Allen’s 102 A Fairway
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IFC
bids
nse
Greeks tout
new policy
An alcohol-free rush policy
isn’t the only thing that was dif
ferent for the fall 2010
Interfraternity Council (IFC)
recruitment season: There was
also an increase in the bid
acceptance rate.
Though the number of stu
dents who registered for recruit
ment this year dropped from
1,622 in fall 2009 to 970 in fall
2010, the acceptance rate
climbed from 62 percent last
year to 78 percent this year.
IFC executives and chapter
presidents said the entire com
munity has embraced the new
recruitment philosophy
resulting in a better experience
and quality recruits.
Zeta Beta Tau President
Travis Miecnikowski said the
fraternity had 16 men accept
bids almost matching the
number of current members.
Miecnikowski (senior-elemen
tary education) said the IFC's
new policy is an overall success.
Recruitment numbers fell in
the 2009 recruitment season, but
are back to and higher than the
2008 rush period, which had a 68
percent bid acceptance rate.
“I caii’t identify any area
where recruitment wasn’t suc
cessful,” IFC Vice President for
Membership Mark Mixon said.
New recruit strategies for the
rush season included hiring the
Phired Up agency, producing a
recruitment booklet, instituting
a dry event policy and raising
the recruitment fee to $25.
“The results speak for them
selves and really all the credit
goes to the chapters,” Mixon
(senior-energy, business and
finance) said.
IFC Vice President for
Standards Nick Rodriguez said
there was “total compliance” of
the recruitment policy. The IFC
did not discipline any fraterni
ties or individual recruits for
breaking the policies, Rodriguez
(junior-crime, law and justice,
See BIDS. Page 2.
IFC numbers rise
ill recruitment bid acceptances
creased this year.
Lower Brush apartment in
Hollidaysburg, Pa. one day later.
At the start of the trial on
Monday at the Blair County
Courthouse, Allen’s attorney,
Steven Passarello, said the evi
dence against Allen will show that
though he is responsible for
Davis’ death, he should not be
found guilty of first-degree mur
der.
But on day two of the trial, the
prosecution challenged that
See TRIAL, Page 2.
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
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